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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1965
Page
4
William Buckley criticizes James Baldwin for rhetoric he sees as harmful to civil rights progress. He argues Baldwin’s pessimism and links to socialism undermine mainstream efforts led by Roy Wilkins and Thurgood Marshall, urging a firmer, less radical stance to preserve the American system for equality.
The message urges valuing a good life over its duration, echoing Ecclesiastes and Seneca. It frames existence as a stage where depth and virtue trump mere longevity. No specific events, places, or persons are mentioned.
Whitesburg lawyer and author Harry Caudill says poverty programs are captured by political machines and courthouse gangs. He cites bureaucrats and county committees, warning funds will flow to politicians while failing to aid the poor. A crippled Kentucky miner agrees the system harms the needy.
The community discusses creating a well run animal shelter as the city proves unable or unwilling to fund one. Residents urge leadership and concrete steps, noting local organizations could take charge and provide a public service.
U S intelligence notes reveal De Gaulle’s anti American stance during the Dominican crisis and possible severing of NATO ties after mid December. In the Fifth Circuit race Johnson faces pressure to appoint Mississippi ex governor Coleman to tilt liberal majority. Yarborough proposes Dickson or Wells for the Texas vacancy.
The item recounts past Bluefield events with dates and names: Attorney George W. St. Clair of Richlands visiting the Daily Telegraph fifty years ago. Pocahontas coal fields reporting record weekly loadings forty years ago. John W. Simon, a Bluefield figure, dying thirty years ago. the Black Hawk Division’s welcome in New York twenty years ago. and a ten year old agreement by Area Development Corp to bring Thayer Corp furniture makers to Bluefield Virginia.
Washington report recalls William McChesney Martin Jr stating that inflation, debt, and exchange-rate policies require cooperative global action. He argued for a stable dollar as the keystone of trade and growth, noting differences from the 1920s and urging prudent, dispassionate analysis of his June 1 speech at Columbia.
A bright poem about a lawn sprinkler and its spray on a suburban greensward contrasts with a biographical verse about Alice Clear Matthews by Fanny DeGroot Hastings. The pair juxtaposes ordinary detail with a soaring meditation on vision and ascent.
A organized, financed effort aims to force a House roll call to seat Mississippi’s five congressmen. SNCC mobilizes a Brooklyn outdoor rally with Rep Lindsay aiding, targeting Emanuel Celler and John Rooney as top targets. Other cities listed include Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago as pressure grows amid expected adverse committee reports.
Wall Streeters are the most predictable of people. If the news is good they go to sleep. If it s bad they go to pieces. Federal Reserve Chairman Martin defends a tight rein policy against loose-money economists who warn of disquieting similarities to 1929. Traders took profits as fears spread, but steady guidance and reforms since 1929 aim to stabilize the system. For small investors with nerve, the long pull trend is up as trusts balance overreaction in markets.
In the Hebridean Isle of Skye the Free Church of Scotland known as the Wee Frees push for strict Sabbath observance troubling travelers and railway ferries. Reverend Andrew Smith and 13 associates were jailed for a sit-down protest at a ferry exit. The piece notes petitions by about 4000 Skye residents to save the Sabbath and cites relaxed laws on Sunday activities in Britain.
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